Ever had the problem in Perl:Undefined subroutine &Scalar::Util::weaken called at
This is caused by a version of Scalar::Util that is perl only and doesn’t implement the weaken function (ref). To install the XS version of Scalar::Util use cpan and run:force install Scalar::Util

Following on from may last post about CPAN in Fedora 20, I faced another problem on a machine I upgraded. cpan would fail to load with the error: The problem I found was in the List::Util library, this library needs to removed and reinstalled. But you...

After a recent Fedora 20 update my Perl libraries are broken. This appears to be a common problem with Fedora updates. When trying to use cpan it kept failing when building the database with error: install_driver(SQLite) failed: Perl API version v5.16.0 o...

I just upgraded by laptop to Fedora 16 and started to get problems with Perl libraries that were installed via yum. Errors along the lines of: perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/local/lib64/perl5/auto/Crypt/Rijndael/Rijndael.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr...

Dec 3, 2011

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Tim • 2012-03-01T17:24:57+00:00

You rock! I’ve hit this problem and had trouble figuring out what CPAN magic elf was sick. Thanks!